We all learn that the average of numbers is just their sum divided by their count, but where does that metric come from and why do we use it?
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Sunday, January 5, 2025
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Just wanted to try out a simple idea for visualizing where I spent my time. Each marker is centered at a location I spent at least 24 hours straight, and the marker size increases with the amount of time spent there.
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Friday, January 12, 2024
You might have heard of the 3n+1 problem at some point. It is pretty cool to visualize.
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Saturday, March 4, 2023
It's hard to get a sense of how much Nick Saban's Alabama teams are dominating compared with Bobby Bowden's FSU ones.
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Friday, July 1, 2022
Are you consistently losing to a 6 year old and looking for an excuse. If so, you've come to the right place.
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Monday, May 30, 2022
My son asked about a seemingly simple dice game and I didn't know how to
answer immediately. The question is:
Player 1 rolls a 6-sided die. Player 2 rolls a 6-sided die. If player 2 rolls the same as player 1, he rolls again. If he again rolls the same, he loses. How often will each player win?
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Player 1 rolls a 6-sided die. Player 2 rolls a 6-sided die. If player 2 rolls the same as player 1, he rolls again. If he again rolls the same, he loses. How often will each player win?
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
I had trouble finding (working) simple tutorials for running Node.js CRUD apps on AWS using Elastic Beanstalk so I wrote one from scratch and documented it.
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Sunday, October 24, 2021
What is the value of something like 101001 - 1101?
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Thursday, October 14, 2021
If you get a 10% raise, and inflation is 6%, did you actually get a raise?
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Saturday, October 2, 2021
Say you run 20 tests before and after a code change meant to speed up the code, but there's a lot of noise in your benchmarks. Some simple statistical tests can help you determine if you actually have an improvement in that noise.
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Monday, September 13, 2021
We could just repeatedly add the numbers but we don't. Is the algorithm we use actually faster?
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021
levels.fyi is a great resource for software salary info and it's easily mineable. I was curious how salaries in what are sometimes considered medium cost-of-living cities compare.
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Sunday, August 1, 2021
Plotly doesn't have the built-in ability to scroll vertically with a fixed x axis unfortunately, but you can mimic that fairly easily...
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